An evolutionary throwback to a time when anything that wasn't your family was either going to eat you or steal your food supply.

Edit - Think Lions of today, they kill cheetahs because theyre another big cat that would be sharing their food supply.
A wild Tiger and a wild Lion put into the same environment will try to kill each other, despite being so genetically similar they can breed viable (albeit sterile) offspring and both species will fight off other members of the same species that encroach on their territory as it is a threat to their food source and ultimate survival, not to mention their tendency to kill unfamiliar babies who are no threat at all just to bring females back on heat.

From an animalistic view humans do very well not to break into our neighbors homes and eat them.

No, evolution only explains instinctive behaviour. We have higher thought. We are responsible for using that to rise above instinctive behaviour.... Cooperation is a higher thought process and has produced everything good we've ever accomplished as a species.

No, evolution only explains instinctive behaviour. We have higher thought. We are responsible for using that to rise above instinctive behaviour.... Cooperation is a higher thought process and has produced everything good we've ever accomplished as a species.

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Cooperation is a result of the fact that humans can project deadly threat against members of our species from a distance, it has nothing to do with thought.

The human brain is the result of a greatly increased developmental cycle relative to our body size. Without 9 months in the womb and many years of brain growth afterward, during which we are largely defenseless, we would NEVER achieve the intelligence we have now and that developmental cycle comes from cooperation. 'It takes a village to raise a child' because even the smallest human societies contain at least several families which need to aid and defend each other. Two humans could never provide the basics of life for the 10+ years it takes for a child to be even remotely competent in caring for herself, and 16+ years to full maturity. Our modern societies are just advanced versions of the tribal communities we first lived in.

Our brain FOLLOWS from cooperation, it does not cause cooperation. There is no other biological way it could work. Impossible.

All thoughts and behaviors are derived from evolved instinct--there are no exceptions.

I can honestly say I have never been racist, even despite my father being one to a decent degree. Although by definition, I am a racist merely because I recognize the existence of different races among humans. Here in Sweden you are apparently not supposed to think such things, says political correctness.